Saving Old Seagulls

[quote="Collector Inspector" so how are the Gulls coping? B[/color][/quote] Well the ones here (east coast) are still crapping on the wife's clean washing and me, if i stand still long enough in the garden that is but other than that they are coping well. :shock: Not so sure about the poor...

Thank you Charles for such an informative reply to my question. :P re: weighting the bow. This is what i have done to my 8ft dinghy by placing fixed ballast, this has made a huge difference to how it rides when under way as without this it was just to high at the bow and too bloody lively on the til...

Ok, time to play spot the dumb arse.

Am i right in thinking this little add on to your outboard has the effect of not allowing it to be pulled deeper the more you rev it?

All insults gladly received

Full respect to your son for starting out on his path to finding a trade. :P I myself am a 5yr city & guilds qualified decorator and on many occasions when my mates were earning more money than me, thought about quitting. Glad i didnt as 30yrs later my trade is still providing for me and my fami...

good fun ahead for all of you me thinks?

Good luck with the pike fishing, mine starts 1st october and lets hope you catch a monster so your son can utter that famous line from the film Jaws.
" were gunna need a bigger boat "

Entertaining to light sometimes.. Just get them really warm with meths in the clip on mantle warmer and slowly turn on the fuel, but stand back just in case .... :lol: Still use an old tilly for my beach fishing and night sessions on the riverbank, great bit of kit thats far better than my coleman ...

JERSEYMAN wrote:Sounds like it's time for a 40+

I do notice that with Seagulls I tend to get max speed at no more than 3/4 throttle, sometimes less. any more throttle just seems to increase noise.

Rene

Thats the same with the featherweight on my dinghy....

Maybe a 40+ will be on the cards?

Just got back from a trip up the river and perhaps im being a little anal about the frailty of my seagulls. However i did notice one thing and this is due to the extra hp of the ugly duckling. With the seagull i do creep along at a very slow pace at higher revs when running against the tidal flow of...

As i sit at the moment i have 1 fully working featherweight, 1 featherweight under going a tasteful tart up and a couple of boxes of seagull spares ( which i have not even looked into) which im told hold all the parts for 2 complete seagulls; again both featherweights. The seagull thats on my dinghy...

Well done that man, better to be a usable motor than nothing but a pile of spares

Collector Inspector wrote:

Rather surprised as to long winded posts re this aye.


B

Oh well, like my wife often says, I can be a little long winded at the things others can do in seconds.

DONT USE PAINT STRIPPER!! Not yet any way. Im a painter and decorator of nearly 30yrs experience and strongly advise against the use of a stripper at this stage as not only will it strip the paint but will loosen the glue of the transfer. If it were me i would slow myself down and ask a few mental q...

Glad its all going well. :P Lived on the boat during the yrs when i was between my ex and my now wife and to be honest it was great. The couple of yrs were the most stress free in my life so far, to the point that mrs dinghy fisherman and I are well on our way to moving back on the river full time. ...

Hows it all going with the clean up and sorting out your new mooring set up? Hope its all sorted now. On my 40ft live aboard i set up a system of stringer weights ( im sure you know how this works) as i too was moored on a tidal river with a drop of some height. This was a simple rise and fall to th...

Hello merry
Not sure where you are in suffolk but in Jeckles free ad window in oulton broad this week there was a seagull for sale. Not sure of the model as im not in the market for yet another. If your passing pop and have a look as they do get advertised in there.

DF